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Thomas MertonThomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license

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Socrates the HistorianSocrates of Constantinople (Greek: Σωκράτης ὁ Σχολαστικός,[1] b. c. 380; d. after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus, was a 5th-century Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret.